pacala

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by pacala 7y ago
Indie movies are a small niche. The creation you talk about is in the same ballpark: it exists, but mostly negligible.
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by pacala 7y ago
Great point. We need to make spying costly though a 2 pronged strategy: * Develop technology that makes it expensive to spy. * Pass legislation that makes it expensive to spy. Bad actors will be still spying, but hopefully we can economical
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by pacala 7y ago
opt-in vs. opt-amish. 99% of the population doesn't wear fitness bands and doesn't need one. Most those that do have a fitness band don't wear it at all times. With SOLI, everyone that is in the neighborhood of a SOLI-enabled
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by pacala 7y ago
You forgot autonomous vehicles, which double as a high capacity sensor platform connected to the mother hive. On which you can keep piling more and more intrusive sensors in the name of safety. If you ever wondered why Google of all compani
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by pacala 7y ago
Fitting user name. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON .
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by pacala 7y ago
Good luck turning off your home-automation controlled heating when it's 20F outside.
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by pacala 7y ago
The economic incentives for home automation are aligned to send them the way of the SpyTV fiasco [0]. Whatever brand you choose, it will spy on you sooner or later. Our speech is no longer private within the confines or our own homes. Soon,
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by pacala 7y ago
No, it’s doing all the heavy lifting on device, only sending the compressed output to the cloud for spying, err, offering you a better service.
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by pacala 7y ago
Persisting is benign. Actively processing, less so. Imagine stack-ranking party alignment sentiment, based on everything the subjects ever said.
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by pacala 7y ago
The facial unlock is more intrusive specifically because of privacy concerns. If you meant "easier to use", maybe. Though I never had any difficulty in finding the fingerprint sensor on my phone, usually in blind mode as I pull it
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by pacala 7y ago
In historical context, RTFM was often times unhelpful. * The manual was accessible via a set of arcane commands, if it was at all accessible. Poor usability and lack of good search was common. Remembering the incantations required for acces
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by pacala 7y ago
True. The point is that at a personal level leisure is no long term substitute for work. On organizing work. Chances are that at some point you'll want to work on things beyond the scope of what you can accomplish on your own. Or want
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by pacala 7y ago
Work gives us purpose. There is no substitute for enjoying the fruits of one's labor. Working on teams anchors us socially. On the flip side, working for someone else with little agency and decompression time is not very enjoyable. Bet
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by pacala 7y ago
I wish it were that easy. Nowadays we build systems-on-chip. Hard to cut specific parts out of the picture. But perhaps the antenna is still off-chip. https://www.androidauthority.com/how-it-works-systems-on-a-c... > [.
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by pacala 7y ago
The only wires left to cut are the power lines. Are you proposing pre-electricity housing as the only alternative to in-home surveillance? Maybe we should just get rid of the creeps by legal means, fat adtech paychecks be damned.
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by pacala 7y ago
Rest assured, 5 years from now your new TV will connect to the 5G wireless network without asking. For Your Convenience [TM].
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by pacala 7y ago
You can't make someone half-pregnant. You can't preserve privacy in "some products". You've got to do it across the board. For example, Google is in the business of tracking your location to sub-meter accuracy. Then
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by pacala 7y ago
Limits and costs. You can only connect to 150 people. No celebrities / influencers. You can only write X messages a day, and copy paste is disabled. You cannot share for free, got to articulate at least 50 words. The reader got to clic
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by pacala 7y ago
True. Microsoft used to be a company built around building and selling software. I used to respect that company. Since Windows 10 telemetry, plus targeted ads as part of the core OS, plus Cortana, the business model has changed for the wors
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by pacala 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_public_corporations_by... Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, Alphabet, Facebook, Berkshire Hathaway, Alibaba Group, Tencent, Johnson & Johnson, JPMorgan Chase. 6 surveillance corporatio
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by pacala 7y ago
Exactly. I suspect this type of communication helps dealing with cognitive dissonance.
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by pacala 7y ago
Without "increase", Boz's statement can also be parsed as "how much privacy, safety and security we can tradeoff for the largest amount of money".
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by pacala 7y ago
He never said "increase privacy, safety and security of consumers". You read that between the lines, but he never said it. As far as he's concerned, it is you that has a comprehension problem.
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by pacala 7y ago
The library ecosystem is different between JVM/JS/Native. Porting across runtimes may require more work than just changing the compilation target.
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by pacala 7y ago
The core premise of the technology is delivery to every home. To deliver to every home, you need to have a camera pointed to every home, and their neighbors, and the people / cars on the street. Not sure what your point is, are you pro
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by pacala 7y ago
We'll install 5G connected, AI powered cameras and far-field microphones in your TV, to measure the emotional impact of our ads. To offer you a better service [TM]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telescreen
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by pacala 7y ago
1% of us will take the troubles to protect themselves. We'll even marginally succeed, as long as we don't go out in public or visit a friend's house. Too expensive to circumvent protections if the other 99% have no [time to d
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by pacala 7y ago
Absolutely! Forget about you and me, the best grind is for one's loved ones.
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by pacala 7y ago
Five years from now, 5G will be widely deployed, with a connection density of 1M/sqkm, 1000 times larger than 4G. The TV will connect directly to the 5G network without asking for permission. For your convenience [TM].
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by pacala 7y ago
Life is grinding. We grind an office life because it's more comfortable than grinding the earth to grow food. We grind the earth because it's more comfortable than grinding the wilderness to gather food. We think we'd like is

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